Henrique Oliveira and Jessica Moon Bernstein at BMoCA
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art opened a new show last Thursday which was long in the making. Henrique Oliveira, an artist from Brazil, took over the museum for a few weeks to construct a large wooden installation as well as hang some decent-sized acrylic paintings. The installation is the star of the show: it wraps around half of the main gallery on the first floor. The work looks like an abstract in Photoshop made tangible. It is striped, three-dimensional, and could be poppy if it weren't so subtly colored. The artist made a good choice when he subdued the colors of the installation. Any more color on such a huge work, certainly, would have been t...Read more
Face to Face: Beverly McIver
Right now in Colorado’s front range, more than a few eclecticly-curated art exhibitions have invested their concerns in portraiture and identity. The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver is exhibiting The Face I had Before The World was Made, and the Denver Art Museum has installed its Face to Face exhibition, a collection of drawings from such artists as Lucian Freud, R. Crumb, George Grosz and local Colorado favorite, Bill Amundson. A show with the same title, the Face To Face exhibition at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, concerns the work of one artist: Beverly McIver. That there are so many faces at so many museums speaks of a renewed and optimistic inter...Read more
Wed Night Open Mic Now Beamed to Monkeys In Space!
If you missed the Illiterate/Baobob Tree Press Poetry/Open Mic last week--or you were there and have found yourself waking up in a cold sweat post-then wishing that you could listen to the entire thing over and over again—well fear not you sweaty Illiterates! Because Bradley Micheal Albus has recorded the entire thing and posted it to the inter-web. Just click on the link below and you’ll be transported back in time, to a simpler place known as September 23 at the Burnt Toast—a place predating Roman Polanski’s Swiss incarceration and Bill Clinton’s Sunday morning appearance on Meet The Press. It was a magical time, filled with words, music, friendly collabor...Read more